From the Beta Tester, we find some questions and answers for the Spirit, AoE, and raid loot. Do you have any troubles for them?
So is tailoring still a "must" for shadow priests? With the change to "+spellpower", is there anything THAT worthwhile that is tailor-specific?
I'm somewhat hesitant about calling this right now. We spoke to a few tailors in the beta some time back for another question about Tailoring specialization, and people were pretty ambivalent over the current high-end recipes, which were generally inferior to drops in Naxx-10. Whether Blizzard is going to patch more and better recipes into the game is anyone's guess, although if BC is any indication we will be seeing a slew of new things.
Turtlehead is right, though; there's currently no 80-level equivalent to Frozen Shadoweave. You can make the argument that Frozen Shadowweave was a good example of what made Tailoring both irritating (to casters who really didn't want to pick it up) and lopsidedly overpowered in BC (FSW boots were better for shadow Priests than anything in the game until Tier 6 boots off Felmyst) and that this is more of a belated fix than a mistake on Blizzard's part. But you may want to wait before you drop Tailoring entirely. You get a Tailoring-specific BoP mount, you still get pretty lucrative items that are now BoE, Tailoring-specific enchants, and -- well, I'd just be careful before dropping it. Blizzard wants professions to be more about fun and less about grinding to get the best items. To be frank, it's a perspective to which I'm sympathetic.
I heard that spirit will be more useful for both DPS casters and healers in Wrath that it is now, is it true? How?
Blizzard is trying to make spirit more useful, yes. They already took a big step in that direction in patch 2.4 by allowing spirit's mp5 mechanic to scale with intellect, but it's still not quite where they want it to be. As Ghostcrawler wrote, "Spirit is something that all casters are going to need a lot more of," mostly because they thought the mana regen mechanic from shadow Priests in Burning Crusade was too good. They want casters to take a more active role in their mana management, rather than dumping and relying on the Replenishment buff.
Personally I find spirit to be a very underrated stat even now. My main is a Druid who is often Resto, and we got gobs of mana regeneration from it with patch 2.4, to the point where I continue to find Bangle of Endless Blessings fairly useful even in Tier 6/Sunwell. A Mage friend of mine found that with sufficient Spirit he could actually gain mana spamming Frostbolt, which greatly amused him. But I don't think spirit's really gotten to the point where most players consider it necessary or desirable to stack, and that's what Blizzard is trying to change.
Some time ago, there was a talk about new player character models for Wrath - and even some bugged pictures. So the question is, are they going live? Are we finally going to get improved graphics on our characters?
